Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1861 – No. 22

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✨ International Exhibition Notices

AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

VOL. IX.] AUCKLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1861. [No. 22.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, 22nd November, 1861.

THE following further Decisions of Her Majesty’s Commissioners on points relating to the International Exhibition of 1862, published in the New Zealand Gazette, are republished for general information.

J. WILLIAMSON,
Superintendent.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

OF

WORKS OF INDUSTRY AND ART

TO BE HELD IN LONDON IN 1862.

HER MAJESTY’S COMMISSIONERS:
The Earl Granville, K.G., Lord President of the Council.
The Marquis of Chandos.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
C. Wentworth Dilke, Esq.
Thomas Fairbairn, Esq.
F. R. Sandford, Esq., Secretary.

DECISIONS

OF

HER MAJESTY’S COMMISSIONERS

ON POINTS

RELATING TO THE EXHIBITION.

June, 1861.

Her Majesty’s Commissioners have fixed upon Thursday the 1st day of May 1862 for opening the Exhibition.
The Exhibition building will be erected on a site adjoining the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the ground occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first International Exhibition.
The portion of the building to be devoted to the exhibition of Pictures will be erected in brick, and will occupy the entire front towards Cromwell Road; the portion in which Machinery will be exhibited will extend along Prince Albert’s Road, on the West side of the gardens.
All works of industry to be exhibited should have been produced since 1850. The decision whether goods, proposed to be exhibited, are admissible or not, must, in each case eventually rest with Her Majesty’s Commissioners.
Subject to the necessary limitation of space, all persons, whether designers, inventors, manufacturers, or producers of articles, will be allowed to exhibit; but they must state the character in which they do so.
Her Majesty’s Commissioners will communicate with Foreign and Colonial exhibitors only through the Commission which the Government of each Foreign Country or Colony may appoint for that purpose; and no article will be admitted from any Foreign Country or Colony without the sanction of such Commission.
No rent will be charged to exhibitors.
Every article produced or obtained by human industry, whether of

VUW Te Waharoa — Auckland Provincial Gazette 1861, No 22

After Parliament moved to Wellington in 1865, the Auckland Provincial Council sat in General Assembly House (depicted).

It was nicknamed the 'Shedifice' as it was large and drafty, with a leaking roof. First premier Henry Sewell described it as 'a great wooden barnshaped affair, which might serve for a Hospital, a Jail, or a Barrack'.

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🏭 International Exhibition of 1862 Decisions

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Dated22 November 1861
KeywordsInternational Exhibition, London, 1862, Decisions, Her Majesty’s Commissioners
👩‍💼 Officials

J. Williamson, Superintendent

🏭 Her Majesty’s Commissioners for the International Exhibition

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
KeywordsCommissioners, Exhibition, London, 1862
👱🏽 Names

6 names identified

The Earl Granville (K.G.), Lord President of the Council
The Marquis Chandos, Commissioner
Thomas Baring (Esquire), Commissioner
C. Wentworth Dilke (Esquire), Commissioner
Thomas Fairbairn (Esquire), Commissioner
F. R. Sandford (Esquire), Secretary

🏭 Decisions of Her Majesty’s Commissioners on the International Exhibition

Domain🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Dated24 June 1861
KeywordsExhibition, London, 1862, Decisions, Commissioners

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